Pune: Caked in dust, slouching with back pain and stressed about reaching the destination in one piece — this forms a fitting description of those working or living in Hinjewadi, routinely travelling to and from the area on a two-wheeler.From potholes that surprise riders to streetlights that fail to turn on, the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech…
Mumbai: BMC’s recent decision to float a Rs 1,348-crore tender to auction the six-acre Century Cotton Textile Mill land for a 30-year lease drew sharp criticism from the Opposition who questioned the intent to monetise the public land after a prolonged legal battle to establish its ownership.“It’s a corrupt practice to auction BMC’s public land…
NEW DELHI : Traffic jams in Delhi are hardly unusual, but few disruptions frustrate commuters as much as those triggered by foreign dignitary visits to Rajghat. For years, these visits have meant sudden barricades, long detours and hours spent inching through gridlocked roads around ITO and adjoining corridors, with one notable exception recently, during Russian…
Pune: As dusk settled over Maharashtriya Mandal grounds in Mukundnagar, a hush of anticipation swept through the audience on the final day of Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav.Renowned vocalist and violinist L Shankar walked onto the stage in his signature style—draped in a light green kurta, his long blond hair flowing freely over his shoulders, a…
Mumbai: With an eye on the polls to 29 municipal corporations in the state, the urban development department has sanctioned funds worth Rs 111.6 crore as a “special provision for the development of basic amenities in municipal corporations”, over half of which is for BMC.It issued 15 govt resolutions on Saturday sanctioning the release of…
New Delhi: In a city as vast and ever-changing as Delhi, where communities often blur into crowds, the Parsi gathering felt quietly momentous. Delhi Parsi Anjuman’s Centenary Celebrations marked not just 100 years — from 1925 to 2025 — of an institution, but a rare coming together of a community that is small in number,…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench here has disposed of a review application against its order of Aug 21 this year, which had imposed Rs30 lakh cost and directed removal of encroachments in the Indrayani riverbed in Lonavla, while observing that the review application was “not maintainable”. The tribunal held that this was an…
Thane: A series of thefts inside an express train triggered chaos at Badlapur railway station on Central Railway late Saturday, after angry passengers stopped the Jodhpur Express by pulling the emergency chain. Alleging repeated thefts, the presence of unauthorised travellers in reserved coaches and the railway administration’s failure to act promptly, passengers resorted to halting…
New Delhi: The wife of a priest was stabbed to death inside a temple located on the premises of a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) housing society in east Delhi’s Mansarovar Park on Sunday. Within hours, police detained a suspect. He told cops that he wanted to kill the priest, Mahesh Sharma, as the latter harboured…
Pune: The Maharashtra govt plans to cap PhD scholarship disbursements under its autonomous bodies to reserved category students in a bid to curb costs. The decision involves autonomous institutes like the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Research and Training Institute (Barti), Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Research, Training and Human Development Institute (Sarthi), and Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Research and…
